Private legal practitioner Martin Kpebu has examined the conditions that influence the voting patterns of people usually devoid of objectivity and competence of candidates, all other things being equal.
He says the information asymmetry that spells the gap between what the political actors and citizens know is a deficit huge enough to adversely affect the election of leadership in Ghana.
According to him, if the people become abreast with what the political actors know, it will inform their decisions to choose the right persons to leadership.
“For lack of knowledge my people perish right, so when citizens are not that well informed what do you expect, it affects the way they take decisions. So when there is that information asymmetry, being what the political actors know as against what the citizens know. Illiteracy is still a huge problem here and we also know that a lot of government institutions and a lot of things we do in Ghana, they are very opaque. Citizens don’t get enough sunshine, they don’t see exactly what goes on like we say today you hear government can’t account for X amount of money, tomorrow someone will come and whitewash it and say it’s been found, meanwhile, nobody has been able to verify,” he said.
source: onuaonline
